Helen's Haven

Friday, 9 March 2018

I'm quickly posting a catch up before I rush out the door again! Life is pretty hectic at the moment, however, I have managed to do quite a few pages.

Firstly, I made a Free Flow Wednesday video for The Crafty Maven Getaway last week, here is the video:

Last weekend was a long weekend here in Western Australia and I spent two days scrapbooking with two of my friends. I created a few pages but as they are design pieces I can't show them just yet. I also created another video for TCMG, for Sketch It Out Thursday. I used the current sketch from Let's Get Sketchy.

This weekend I am off to a scrapbooking retreat so hopefully I'll have more layouts to share with you next time.

Sunday, 25 February 2018

I have been a bit missing in action this last week but life has been hectic! I am currently packing up my house as I am putting it on the market and hoping to sell it in the next month. Boy I thought I was a minimalist but I was wrong!!

Anyway, this fortnight's challenge over on The Studio Challenges is to use kraft somehow in your layout. This is what I created:

When Mum and I were traveling around the UK in 2013 I took this selfie whilst waiting outside, in the cold, an op shop where she was looking around. I used some bits and pieces from two of Paige Evans' collections from last year.

Sunday, 28 January 2018

Our next fortnightly challenge is going live today on The Studio Challenges - it is a mood board challenge. This is the layout I created using mainly Shimelle's Glitter Girl range from American Crafts:

This is the mood board, so why don't you have a go and join in the fun! It is open until 25th February.

As I was creating I remembered to record it so I have made a process video if you are interested.

Monday, 15 January 2018

Today is my first reveal as a Stick It Down design team member for the single page team. I am on a bit of a kick this year to decrease my stash so most of my page is made up by pieces that are years old.

Anyway here is my page:

This was the sketch we used:
As you can see I flipped the sketch, this was because my sons were looking left and I usually like for the people on my page to be looking into the page. I tried to keep the top left hand corner empty but I just couldn't.

Well that's it for today, until next time take care and happy crafting.Helen xx

Sunday, 14 January 2018

Today the next fortnightly challenge is going live at The Studio Challenges and all you have to do is use snowflakes, easier said than done when you live in Western Australia where it never snows! However, I am planning a trip to England in 2019 so I created a page about my upcoming visit and used a photo taken when I was last there (2013).

Here it is:

I was cutting out the alphabet for my sister-in-law and when I saw the negative of the E I suddenly knew what my page was going to be about. In the background I have sprayed some Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays in the colours of Scintillating Silver, Silent Night Silver and Frosted Forget-Me-Nots. I quickly dab up the excess colour after spraying so that the colour was rather muted in the background. I then embossed some snowflake stamps and the paper snowflakes I had cut with my Silhouette machine. I dug into my stash and found some very old snowflake brads from Making Memories - I can't begin to tell you how old they are! I finished it off with some enamel dots, little word stickers from Tim Holtz and some punched snowflakes out of silver paper.

Well that's it for my snowflake page, I hope you enjoy it and it helps spark some inspiration. Please check out the other pages by the design team over on The Studio Challenges blog.

Sunday, 7 January 2018

Wow one week in already for 2018, however, as I'm on school holidays time does go fast! On Saturday my latest video for The Crafty Maven Getaway went live, it was a scraplift layout. This is what I created:

I scraplifted a fairly recent layout created by Kelly Barron, it was one of her design team pieces for Citrus Twist Kits.

What did I scraplift? Well I used the idea of a central square, however, mine has been created by patterned paper whilst Kelly used paint. I also incorporated the paper strips at the top and bottom of the layout, plus, I used paper and embellishments that came from Pink Paislee/Paige Evans' Turn The Page collection like the flower diecuts in Kelly's kit.

Here is the video if you wish to watch the process.

Well that's it for today I will be back later in the week with some other design team pieces albeit for other teams.